Even though in recent years renegades have been the object of many rigorous studies, the effects and meanings that religious images incite in the hands of these frontier figures have not yet been taken into full consideration. The interaction of these individuals with a symbol as distinctive and intimately tied to Christianity as that of the cross adds new subtleties to an icon that was originally conceived to have a single and common meaning, but in the hands of renegades, it takes on different uses depending on how and for what it is used. In this article, I examine the complex relationship between renegades and the power of images, focusing principally on the Murcian renegade in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, as well as other real and fictional examples, such as Guillén de Castro's El renegado arrepentido.

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ISSN

1553-0639

Print ISSN

0018-2176

Pages

pp. 307-327

Launched on MUSE

2018-08-07

Open Access

No

Archive Status

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